Subject: Re: commit -- toolbar buttons for super/sub
From: Stephen Hack (shack@uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 16:28:51 CST
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 02:24:16PM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 12:30 PM 12/8/99 -0600, Stephen Hack wrote:
> >Is there any plans to put this into the paragraph dialog? For it is a font
> >property.
>
> It's a character property, so if it goes anywhere, it should eventually be
> in the font dialog.
>
> For now though, I'd suggest that we hold off on redesigning that dialog for
> a while, and probably not until after 1.0. We'll eventually want to unify
> the various platform font dialogs and add formatter support for a bunch of
> additional character-level properties (like various underscore types, etc.).
>
> The right time to redesign that dialog is when folks are ready to add
> support for a *bunch* of those more sophisticated properties. Incrementally
> redoing that dialog for every single new property is a pain for folks doing
> the ports, and confusing for users.
>
> In the mean time, there are plenty of:
>
> - existing dialogs to finish (zoom, break, paragraph, options) and
> - new dialogs to add (tabs, insert date and time, page setup, etc.).
>
> It's not like we're short on pre-1.0 UI work without this. :-)
>
> Paul
I currently have a tabs dialog designed in glade. If you want to see it, it's
at
http://argus.itg.uiuc.edu/~shack/abisource
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